White Room
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| publication | September 1968 |
| length | 4:58, 3:05 (7 "version) |
| Genre (s) | Psychedelic rock |
| Author (s) | Jack Bruce, Pete Brown |
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White Room is a rock song written by Jack Bruce (music) and Pete Brown (lyrics) and performed by British supergroup Cream . The song was originally released on the double album Wheels of Fire in July 1968, decoupled as a single in September 1968.
The single rose to the top 30 in nine countries, including Australia , where the single reached number one on the Go-Set National Top 40 Dingles Charts. The American music magazine Rolling Stone listed the piece in 2004 and 2010 at number 376 of the 500 best songs of all time .
Background and recording
The song goes back to an eight-page poem by Pete Brown allegedly written during a time when he was recovering from bad habits. The band began recording White Room in July or August 1967 in London, where the base of the song was recorded.
In September and October, during a two-week stint at Cafe A Gogo in New York , the group continued to record at Atlantic Studios. There he made overdubs , with the exception of the wah-wah overdubs , which was recorded in New York in January or February 1968th The last recordings were made in June 1968. The drummer Ginger Baker claims to have contributed the distinctive 5/4 time to the composition, which was originally only in 4/4 time. On the other hand, Jack Bruce said that he wrote the introduction in 5/4 time due to his experience as a bassist and that he still has the original sheet music to this day.
Jack Bruce sang and played bass on the recording, Eric Clapton played several guitar passages . Ginger Baker played drums and Felix Pappalardi , the band's producer , played the violin . Clapton used wah-wah effects to create a speaking effect .
Publications
Cream played the piece in 1968 at numerous concerts; Recordings from the Oakland Coliseum Arena in California in October 1968 and the Royal Albert Hall in November 1968 have been released on the group's albums ( Live Cream. Vol. 2 ) and in the film Farewell Cream , respectively.
White Room was designed by Jeff Healey , Waylon Jennings , Joel Gray , Frank Gambale , Iron Butterfly , Jimmy Ponder , Helloween , Demons & Wizards , Hugh Cornwell , Jimmy Barnes , The Guess Who , The Vines , The Stranglers , The Bobs and Ring of Fire covered. In 2016 the song was recorded by Ace Frehley and released as a single on February 12, 2016. Jack Bruce recorded the piece several times. A live version of the song appeared on Eric Clapton's double album, VHS and DVD 24 Nights 1991. Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow played the piece during their 1999 Central Park concert .
Use of the song
The song can be heard at the end of the Entourage episode The Resurrection . White Room was used as the soundtrack for the ninth episode of the ABC series Life on Mars .
White Room is played after wins in Keyspan Park of the Brooklyn Cyclones and after wins in the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field .
A cover version of the song appeared as a playable piece in the music video game Rock Revolution 2008. An instrumental version was used as the intro for the audio book by Gary Dell'Abate They Call Me Baba Booey .
The piece is used in a scene from the film Joker (2019) with Joaquin Phoenix .
Web links
- White Room at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts UK Charts US
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969) "Show 53 - String Man" Pop Chronicles
- ↑ Go-Set number-one singles
- ↑ a b c Harry Shapiro Jack Bruce Composing Himself: The Authorized Biography 2010, p. 105.
- ↑ Hjort, Christopher (2007) Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970 - London, UK: Jawbone Press, ISBN 978-1-906002-00-8 , pp. 126, 148, 159, 181.
- ↑ Felix Pappalardi Interview, Hit Parader # 55 , February 1969.
- ↑ a b c Cream Recording Sessions
- ↑ Classic Rock Magazine, March 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wheels of Fire (CD Booklet), Cream - Polydor Records , 1997.
- ^ Bacon, Tony (1990) "Guitar Madness", The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music 11, ISBN 978-1-85435-015-2 , p. 1079.
- ↑ Musikmarkt Online ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 17, 2016.
- ^ Gary Dell'Abate, They Call Me Baba Booey
